The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-07
NOVELTIES IN CURTAINsAND POR-
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NEW DIRK, Nov. o.--The newest things in
window curtains and portieres for warm
winter decoration are Florentine velours,
plush and brocatelle. These are all renais-
sance materials and come in renaissance
colorings, copper, olive, Gobelin blue and
bronze, and in bold conventional renais-
sance designs.
The velours, which is perhaps the richest,
as 1t is the most novel of autumn fabrics
is a heavy, soft. luxurious hanging which
makes an agreeable transition from the I'M
defined, hazy harmony of last years Indian
and Egyptian colorings TO the more modern
and more striking if also somewhat more
raw, effects of the decided renaissance pat
terms Velours curtains are double-faced,
and effective sets recently seen for window
or doorway are a rudy copper, solid color,
with contrasting border on one side, and
silver gray with detached figures in blue up
on the other. Coral and bronze, old red and
Gobelin blue, copper and olive in plain col
ors make beautiful curtains, while the tleur
de lis, the shamrock. the thistle, the rose,
the passion-hower conventionalized make ar
tistic designs set off against rich hued back
grounds. Such curtains cost anywhere from
$50 to $50 or 5000 pair, but they would
last many years if that tickle wretch fash
ion, did not change
For richly furnished interior which can
stand the color effect there is nothing more
daringly successful, when successful at all,
than curtains or portiereS of solid color in
brocatelle. Electric blue, silver gray, old
red and other shades are chosen to harmon
iZe with upholstered parlor sets in broca-
telle, sometimes repeating the hues of the
furniture exactly. The heavier brocatelle
are s. or thereaboutS yard, and heavy
silk fringes run up their prices indeti-
nitely. Brocatelle is a material to which the
abused term magnificent is properly APP
piled. 1t is out of place in a small room or
low-ceiled room, but lends emphasis and
character to city palace on the renaissance
plan.
CHENILLE Is THE ONE ORIENTAL
curtain left. The thick rich silk chenilles,
which when you try to reproduce them in
wool approximate a Turcoman, are har-
nonious, graceful hangings in dull tapestry
tints or blending Eastern colors, and
they cost to the tune of 500 a pair.
Turcoman luckily can be had for less than
S.
Tapestries we have always with us, and ii
is easy to run their figures up into the thou
sands. People who have original ideas and
tastes of their own are quite apt this season
to choose plain satin sheeting in any color
that fits well with their belongings and hang
it to suit themselves.
In the lace curtain line the Nottingham
has bowed itself out. 1t was durable; it had
a strong tape edge" it would wash, but il
was not aesthetic, and the places that knew
it know it no more. Its mission in life has
been undertaken by the Irish point lace,
which is about as cheap and much prettier.
The Irish points are cream tinted instead OF
white, and they have bold and decided Dor
ders with plain lace middleS. A finer grade
of the same curtain is the Colbert, which Is
often really beautiful and artistic thing.
People who are equal to $40 to S75 buy the
Louis XIV. curtains, which come in striped
borders with fine lace effects. Most beauti-
full and most expensive of the new lace
hangings are the Brussels curtains, on which
branching vine and flower sprays run riot
in delicate, cobwebby designs.
All these are parlOr and library hangings
Up stairs one uses for stuff curtains or Dor
there's the damassee fabrics in silk and WOO
N renaissance colors, or the Samaritan
cross stripes in gay bayadere Illuminated
effects on olive, terra Gotta or Russian
green. Madras goes at the windows in
gold and white stripes, Tuscan gold or OLD
pink, or, if white is preferred, then gui-
pure for the soft effect of its folds, scrin o.
Florentine lace, Irish point, but never Not
tingham.
The Indian silks continue the favorite
material for sash curtains and bed hangings
y
beautiful as its many tinted designs i'll
their soft, but rich hues. The Indian silk
is thin, almost transparent texture, aud
shows perhaps to best advantage in kismet
patterns in green and brown or gold, or III
flower fancieS on rose antique silk.
THERE ARE QUITE AS MANY NOVELTIES
III curtain hanging as in curtain materials.
The two conventional front windows of
the brownstone parlor are quite apt to be
grouped to break up the monotOny of effecj
in a repetition of drapery nowadays II
they are placed as close together as is apt to
be the case in narrow city house, they are
treated as one effect in the furnishing of the
room. This means that after sash curtains
and shades have BEEN placed as usual but one
pair of lace Gu tains is hung. Suppose
these are to be Colbert or guipure. Next
them and for inside curtains one will take
rich silk plush of any hue that will go
we'll in the room and hang one pair of cur
tains on the same rings and directly over the
lace curtains, drawing them well along at
the top to cover the upper sash of the win
dow. Now, for finish, comes long scarf
of plush, which is draped between the two
windows and over the nearer ends of the
two curtain poles in any fashion that one
desires. Sometimes IL is flung from pole to
pole and then hangs straight down by the
side of either window, sometimes it is draped
about picture that hangs between the two
windows and is them carried to the wood
work ON either side and fastened in a great
knot with dropping end from each. Some
times it is swung in a great loop, shawl fash
ion between the windows, ana again it is
arranged in some original device that the
ingenuity of the woman of the house has
devised.
The upper part of the window recess is
filled in this fall with a fretwork of some
dark wood frequently ebonized, in a va
riety of interviewer conventional patterns
which intercept the light prettily and takes
the place to some extent of the plush val
ances so long used above curtains of all
sorts. This wooden valance is too open and
cobwebby to darken the room and is fav-
orite in cottages of the Queen Anne type.
The curtain rod is run just below it, and to
break up the heavy luxury of lace and plush
duplicate draped hangings for inner and
outer curtains come in the delicate tinted
satin sheetings which are taken III scarf, or
shawl or sash forms and draped against the
lace, not as formally hung curtains at all,
but flung once twice or three times over
the curtain pole and hanging in artistic
loopings differently arranged for every Win
dow, Offering as much variety as there is
ingenuity put into their arrangement. The
least concession that a house mistress can
make to the desire for something new in cur
tains is to gather back one side of a hang
ing with its girdle or drapery chain and
let the other fall straight unconfined
Portieres have not had as much
attention lavished on their ar
rangement, but they afford a nov